I agree with most of the stuff on this list of "Things that Kids Today Don't Know About" :
- Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something
- Super 8 movies and cine film of all kinds
- Playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo
- Standard Definition, CRT TVs filling up half your living room
- Rotary dial televisions with no remote control
- 8 Track cartridges
- Vinyl records
- Betamax tapes
- MiniDisc
- Laserdisc - The LP of DVD
- Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations
- Shortwave radio
- 3D movies meaning red/green glasses
- Watching TV when the networks say you should
- That there was a time before ‘Reality TV’
- The scream of a modem connecting
- The buzz of a dot matrix printer
- 5 and 3 inch floppies, Zip Discs and countless other forms of data storage
- Using Jumpers to set IRQs
- DOS
- Terminals accessing the mainframe
- Screens being just green (or orange) on black
- Tweaking the volume setting on your tape deck to get a computer game to load
- Counting in Kilobytes
- Wondering if you can afford to buy a RAM upgrade
- Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time
- Turning a PlayStation on its end to try and get a game to load
- Joysticks
- Having to delete something to make room on your hard drive
- Booting your computer off of a floppy disk
- Finding out information from a book Encyclopedia
- Using a road atlas to get from A to B
- Doing Bank business only when the Bank is open
- Only shopping during the day, Monday to Saturday
- Phone books and Yellow Pages
- Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees
- Filling out an order form by hand, putting it in an envelope and posting it
- Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment
- The fact that words generally don’t have num8er5 in them
- Correct spelling of phrases, rather than TLAs
- Waiting several minutes (or even hours!) to download something
- When Spam was just a meat product (or even a Monty Python sketch) not an email
- Typewriters
- Putting film in your camera - 35mm may have some life still but what about APS or Disk?
- Sending that film away to be processed
- Having physical prints of photographs come back to you
- CB radios
- Rotary dial telephones
- Using a stick to point at information on a wallchart
- Pay phones
- Fax machines
- Vacuum cleaners with bags in them
- Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for EVERYONE to listen to during a long drive
- Not knowing who was calling you on the phone
- Actually going down to a Blockbuster store to rent a movie
- LEGO just being square blocks of various sizes, with the old wheel, window or door
- Waiting for the television network premiere to watch a movie after its run at the theatre
- Starbuck being a man
- Han shoots first
- “Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father” - but they’ve already seen episode III, so it’s no big surprise
- Kentucky Fried Chicken, as opposed to KFC
- Finding books in a card catalog at the library
- Having to manually unlock a car door
- Writing a cheque
- Looking out the window during a long drive
- Roller skates, as opposed to blades
- Cash
- Libraries as a place to get books rather than a place to use the Internet
- Spending your entire allowance at the arcade in the mall
- A physical dictionary (either or spelling or definitions) When a ‘Geek’ and a ‘Nerd’ were one and the same
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